A candidate from the Greens party has unleashed a scathing critique of those advocating for military intervention in Iran, describing them with explicit language and calling for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to face prosecution for war crimes.
Omar Sakr, who has been chosen as the Greens candidate for the federal seat of Blaxland in Western Sydney, condemned the Albanese administration for aligning with the US and Israel in their military actions.
He expressed his outrage in an Instagram post on Sunday, stating, “F***ing evil c***s. F*** this murderous fascist empire forever.”
Sakr continued his tirade, criticizing the Australian government for what he perceives as its subservience to the US, accusing it of being part of a corrupt and oppressive system run by unsavory figures.
He further accused the Albanese government of being subservient after Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong mentioned to the ABC that Australia was not involved in the military strikes and wasn’t privy to the intelligence shared by the US and Israel.
Sakr questioned the rationale behind the government’s stance, asking how they could support an action if they couldn’t determine its legality, as reflected in his repost of Wong’s interview.
‘It’s so embarrassing to admit you had zero intelligence about this – so you follow USrael blindly. That’s not the position of a partner, it’s that of a slave.’
Sakr added: ‘This Labor administration is racist, through and through, they are active partners in the genocide. Albanese and the senior figures in his administration need to be prosecuted for war crimes.’
Omar Sakr (pictured with Greens senator Dr Mehreen Faruqi) blasted those supporting strikes against Iran in an expletive-ridden rant
Military strikes continued on Monday (pictured a plume of smoke rises after a strike in Tehran)
Sakr was preselected for the Blaxland seat in Western Sydney in December 2024
He added: ‘The only thing driving division in Australia is this government’s relentless and racist double standards.’
The Lebanese-Turkish Muslim activist was preselected for the Blaxland seat in December 2024.
During his preselection, Sakr was described as ‘an award-winning Arab Australian poet’ who would ‘bring a desperately-needed, authentic community voice in parliament.’
At the time, deputy Greens leader and Senator for NSW, Dr Mehreen Faruqi, said she was ‘so proud and excited’ to see Sakr running for the Greens.
‘Omar will bring the authenticity of western Sydney and its rich multicultural community into the halls of parliament… with people like Omar alongside me, we can keep fighting even more strongly for marginalised communities,’ Faruqi said.
Sakr has been awarded tens of thousands of dollars in grants from government, arts and creative agencies for his poetry collections. In 2022, he was named by The Australian as one of the top 100 cultural leaders in the arts.
Executive Council of Australian Jewry president, Daniel Aghion, described Sakr’s comments as ‘abusive and offensive’.
‘If Mr Sakr were to sit down with Iranian Australians and listen to their views, he would find that they are very supportive of the US and Israel in removing a despotic regime that is hell-bent on massacring its own people,’ Mr Aghion told The Australian.
Sakr called for Albanese and ‘senior figures’ in government to be prosecuted for war crimes
It comes as mosques across Australia paid tribute to Iran’s Supreme Leader for a second night.
Vigils were held at mosques in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane following the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in his compound by a US-Israel airstrike on February 28.
Khamenei, who ruled Iran as its supreme leader for over three decades, is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths, through a campaign of state-sponsored terrorism against his own people and abroad.
He came to ultimate power in 1989 and was made commander-in chief of the Iranian armed forces and its ‘axis of resistance’ – an anti-Western alliance made up of terrorist groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas, Shia militias in Iraq and the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
Khamenei also crushed those who opposed his reign internally, with more than 30,000 protestors killed by security forces on his orders in January alone – the largest death toll in modern Iranian history.
The Daily Mail has contacted Sakr and Senator Faruqi for comment.
